A seminar about mobile people and cultural exchange in the multicultural early modern Mediterranean. In-person at IASH, University of Edinburgh, and online.
Register here: https://edin.ac/4fiyni0.
10.00–10.30 Registration and Welcome
10.30–11.30 Converted Scholars in Christian Europe
Theocharis Dadichi’s Eastern Christian Odyssey’
Simon Mills, Newcastle University
The Economic Imaginary of Leo Africanus
Richard Oosterhoff, University of Edinburgh
11.30–11.45 Morning Tea
11.45–1.15 Britons in the Maghreb and Mashriq
Setting the Terms of Trade in Revolutionary Tunis, 1675–1705: Maghrebi Initiative through British Eyes
Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne
The Privy Council of Scotland and the Problem of Maghreb Captivity, 1690–1715
Clare Loughlin, Newcastle University
Traversing Tradition and Practice: Arabic, Persian, and the East India Company in the Eighteenth Century
Peter Good, University of Bergen
1.15–2.15 Lunch
2.15–3.15 Slavery and Community on the Galleys
Neither Knights nor Free Men: Outsiders Aboard the Galleys of the Order of Saint Stephen
Georgina Watson, University of Manchester
A Comparative Study of Representations of Protestant–Muslim Relations on Eighteenth-Century French Galley Ships
Nora Baker, University of Birmingham
3.15–3.30 Afternoon Tea
3.30–4.20 Lightning Talks: Credibility in the Bathhouse and Courtroom
The Royal Bagnio: Establishing a New Transcultural Space in Early Modern London
Sarah Hess, University of Sheffield
Social Inclusion and Child Guardianship as Affective Governance in Early Modern Ottoman Istanbul
Eyup Ensar Dal, University of Manchester
4.20–5.30 Open Discussion and Drinks